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​The Aiming Circle is an on-line resource for writer-practitioners of military-themed literary and genre fiction; creative non-fiction; history; poetry; opinion/analysis; and other storytelling. We illuminate potential markets, contests, workshops, and other opportunities for military writers, and provide them concrete tools, tips, and techniques for writing, editing, and publishing their work on time, and on target.

'Flyway' Extends 2018 Veterans-Lit Contest

Under the banner of their annual "Untold Stories" contest, editors of "Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment" have extended to March 31, 2018 (originally March 1) a call for submissions of poetry, creative non-fiction, fiction, and hybrid forms produced by past and present military service members and family. Entry fee is $15. Prize is $250. All entries will be considered for publication.

According to the submissions guidelines, the contest annually focuses on a different group of underrepresented voices. For this year's contest, entrants should indicate their relationship to the United States armed forces in a cover letter accompanying each submission.

We are interested in work that explores the intersection of human experience and the environment, broadly interpreted: work that focuses on ecology, science and the environmental imagination, certainly, but also work that focuses on place, on natural and built environments, and on the ways that people interact with their environments. We are looking for work that surprises, moves, haunts, or affects the reader in some significant way.

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